On Wed, Jan 03, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "making a static binary out a
dynamic":
> hi
> I'm trying to create a boot disk, and i have to use a ramdisk,
> the makimum ramdisk size is 1440k (compressed )
> the problem is that i have to put in the ramdisk, a binary which uses libc.so
> but libc.so compressed is bigger then 1440k.
> can i link the binary with libc.so and make it static ?
Though you can go that way (it can help if the program is using only a small
subset of libc.so), another way to go is to strip libc.so (you're actually
allowed to do that!). In a test I conducted, this lowered the size of libc.so
from 4.6M to only 1.2M (compressing it, it fits easily in a diskette).
To gain the most from the stripping, do the following:
strip -s -R .note -R .comment libc.so
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